Goals

Both of these APIs are fully supported, but do not expose the full capabilities of Alfresco. Also, the development of new Web Services is expensive.

With this in mind, and looking to future features we'd like to support, it's time to take a look at how we provide a full-featured Remote API.

Providing a Remote API in itself is not a technical issue. However, it touches on many (current & future) aspects of Alfresco and so some thought-time is worth while. In parallel, the industry is focusing on standardising content management repository & services interfaces.